Detroit could have had Gretzky

Detroit is a sports town. And hockey is the sport de jour (please, don't ask us about the Lions or the Tigers right now. Wounds are too fresh.)

I recently ran across this story about how The Great One could have been a Red Wing. Ah, the sweet misery.

According to the article..."Gretzky knew he was shipping out of Edmonton well before the trade, which he helped orchestrate after he realized that a new real estate agent was unavoidable. "I only want to go to two places," he told Pocklington. "LA or Detroit," the latter being just a three-hour drive from his hometown of Brantford, Ontario.

His dad pushed for Detroit. Surprisingly, so did his wife. "It's a hockey city," she reminded her husband. It's technically called Hockeytown, but they'll probably forgive her considering she tried to give the city its biggest bailout this side of Washington D.C."

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